RM> You always find a book for most things...   B)

AA>Operating a bookshop exposes me to such things.  

Yes, I'm grateful for my best resource for finding books..   B)

RM> In recent years she's experimenting with growing some
RM> plants inside holes in bales of straw. That was a new one
RM> to me..

AA>Raised beds with controlled drainage seems to be good solution.

My next door neighbours built a huge garden with a lot of those,
just outdoor for summer growing though. That's maybe easier to
understand when you see how little soil we have in this area
on top of the bedrock. Building boxed raised gardens keeps the
soil you do bring in from being washed away.

AA>But I hear ya.. a lot of resources goes into managing a garden.
  >And.. if you can't be onsight almost every day, the health of
  >the garden can wane.

Yes.. Back when I lived in the city (ironically) and was working
full time I had a fairly big garden, several hundred square feet,
but I was there most of the time to take care of it, having only
a couple of weeks a year off. Now I'm retired with lots more spare
time and I don't have the ambition..   B)

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